Kaminey movie review
Kaminey movie has opened well across the nation with Dhan Te Nan making people go ga-ga over the music. Kaminey can well be regarded as a homage to the cinema of yore & this reason is enough to go for the movie which Vishal Bhardwaj has achieved well. It’s one of the most keenly anticipated movie of this time and goes well just like Om Shanti Om in which Farah Khan paid homage to the cinema of 1970s. Vishal has picked the best characters of Hindi cinema and executed them like Tarantino & Guy Ritchie thus creating a movie which is very different from most of the movies yet.
Kaminey can be regarded as bold, stark, funny & unpredictable and only two things have made it what it is – Shahid Kapoor & Dhan Te Nan. His exemplary double role in the movie would sure catapult him to the superstardom. There’s another star in Kaminey & that’s Dhan Te Nan. People’s heart started beating faster every time they heared the music in the background and also when Shahid broke into the song. The track is as big a craze as Jumma Chumma (Hum), Ek Do Teen (Tezaab) and Choli Ke Peeche Kya Hai(Khalnayak) and will contribute enormously in attracting viewers in hordes.
Kaminey is an unusal well-made masala movie and there’s no spoon feeding in there. The only thing it demands is attentiveness to grasp the going-on & twists in the movie. Kaminey would be useless to see if you kept your brain at home, like you must have done for many movies. Kaminey is a film with an attitude and you must watch it for the hatke experience!
The movie is about a pair of twins, Charlie & Guddu (played by Shahid Kapoor), who are as different as chalk & cheese. Charlie lisps & Guddu stammers but they just can’t stand the sight of each other till one fateful rainy night, when their lives cross. Charlie gets mixed up in a deathly get-rich-quick scheme, while Guddu realises that the love of his life, Sweety (Priyanka Chopra), has unwittingly put a price on his head. The brothers are sucked into a world of drugs, guns and money. The brothers have to run to protect themselves, their dreams, their love. And most importantly, realize that all they have is each other.
Though it takes time to get used to the world Vishal Bhardwaj wants us to enter but 20 minutes into the film & things start falling in place. From thereon, visitors are drawn into a different world completely when the interval point raises the bar & also the expectations. The story takes a dramatic turn at this juncture, but minutes before that, Dhan Te Nan makes the proceedings exhilarating and stimulating.
Right from the sequence after the interval to the finale, Vishal Bhardwaj peels off layer after layer, which erupts like a volcano towards the end.
The end is long drawn and with so many characters in the film, it only takes time to give a culmination to each of those characters. And that gets tedious. The violent end might not find universal acceptance.
Vishal Bhardwaj proves that he’s a master storyteller. Kaminey is a damn difficult film to conceptualize and execute and Vishal does it with gusto. Amole Gupte is outstanding. An incredible actor! Tenzing Nima and Chandan Roy Sanyal leave a solid impression. Shiv Subrahmanyam and Hrishikesh Joshi are perfect.
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